odds
odds
Definition
odds (ädz)
- Archaic inequalities
- Now Rare difference or amount of difference
- difference in favor of one side over the other; advantage
- an equalizing advantage given or received in betting, based on a given bettor's assumed chance of winning and expressed as a ratio a winning bettor who got odds of 3 to 1 is paid three times as much as he or she bet
at odds
in disagreement; quarreling
by (all) odds
by far; unquestionably
(the) odds are
the likelihood is
odds
Synonyms
odds
n.
An advantage
allowance, edge, benefit, difference, superiority, overlay*, square odds*, place money*, show money*; see also advantage 1.A probability
likelihood, favor, superiority, chances; see probability.
at odds
odds Quotes
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
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